Early Easter

On Friday, our group of 4 labs had an Easter lunch. In the morning, we painted eggs so that they would be dry for the pre-lunch competitions. Usually, they use water colors to paint the eggs. I brought back a few egg dying kits (the "magic" crayon and color tablets that you put in water and vinegar) so we did both. Here are a couple of pictures of people (sometimes very seriously) creating their masterpieces.

At noon, the egg competitions began. The first was to see who could get their egg to travel the farthest after going down a ramp. I came in second.
In the second round, Jesper (the winner of the first round), rolled his egg down the ramp again. Then, the goal was to get as close to his egg as possible. Ernesto won this one. The prizes were a pineapple and a cantaloupe. Here are the winners in action.Our eggs got pretty smashed up - good thing they were hard-boiled. Easter lunch was the usual Swedish holiday fare - herring in several different sauces, potatoes, flat bread/crackers, cheese, ham, and, of course, our eggs.